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Part 4 describes what has been dubbed as 'Fortress British Columbia', the largest public security operation in the history of Canada.

The RCMP will coordinate the Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit - 12,000 officers - composed of the Vancouver Police, Coast Guard, Border Patrol, and the armed forces to man the Olympic Venues. This includes 300 soldiers from Canada's special anti-terrorist unit, Joint Task Force 2, an Emergency Response Team, and the Crowd Control unit also known as the riot police. Security zones with authorized IDs for officials, athletes and local residents will be established, and monitored by closed circuit television surveillance systems that can detect motion as well.

In March 2007, CSIS published a threat assessment listing Indigenous people and anti-poverty groups as their primary security concern. To find out more about activities and actions organized by the Olympic Resistance network, please visit their website at no2010.com

Vancouver’s gold-medal holder in Olympic critique has lambasted the
Vision Vancouver-led city council for approving “an extremely
contentious bylaw that is going to come back and bite them in the ass
in 2010”.

More than two-and-a-half years have passed since the “Battle of the Bluffs”, when 23 protesters were arrested by West Vancouver police for blockading the expansion of the Sea-to-Sky highway through the Eagleridge Bluffs.